Blanke Lab

Neuroscience of self-consciousness | Altered states | Meditation |Neuroprosthetics | Virtual Reality | Robotics/Haptics | @Neuro_X_EPFL | @Brainmind_EPFL

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

📰 Robotics to detect cognitive decline: our new study demonstrates that early cognitive dysfunction relates to minor hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease.
Read the full paper: 👇https://t.co/NxiftpbTuP

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Jevita Potheegadoo spoke at the “Rendez-vous Recherche” webinar on the 9th of March hosted by @FranceParkinson with 400+ participants joining to learn about minor hallucinations and cognitive impairment. Watch 👇 https://t.co/p7w6sIj72r

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

📰New Paper out: Altered interoceptive brain mechanisms in Functional Neurological Disorder. Work led by Natascha Stoffel and conducted in collaboration with Prof. Selma Aybek from the University of Fribourg https://t.co/AddC1cUp8u #epfl

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Rare amnesic patient reveals body's role in autobiographical memory. Check out our new paper led by @nathalie_heidi and @BaboRebelo !
https://t.co/4gPX5Y3fdI #epfl

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

🧠New paper out!

We show how motor cortex signals relate to free will, developing a new voluntary action paradigm and a brain-machine interface. A step closer to understanding how thoughts become actions — and making brain tech feel like body.

📄 https://t.co/9FbZRCeaPt

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

👥 Why do hallucinations in Parkinson's often feature people or animals?

Our new study finds patients over-perceiving people (but not control stimuli). We link this social bias to loneliness and anthropomorphism.

📄 https://t.co/rHGqac0GJU

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

🧠 New study led by Tommaso Bertoni, published in @NatureComms, shows that pre-movement alpha oscillations shape the sense of agency by gating brain connectivity—using BMI and EEG.

📰 https://t.co/6kEs3sPLiq

@andrea__serino @DoctorAliRezai @EPFL_en @CHUVlausanne @WVURNI

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

@BaboRebelo @AgEInves @idibaps @hospitalclinic @mavi_sanchez Congratulations Mariana @BaboRebelo!

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

🚨 Research Assistant Position in Clinical Neuropsychology 🚨

Join us to study self-consciousness alterations in healthy & clinical populations 🧠✨

📍 Geneva | 🗓️ Start: 15/03/25 | 📜
Deadline: 15/02/25

🔗 Details & apply: https://t.co/4zcl76eNi3

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Really excited to share our collaborative work with @HummelLab, led by the talented @BeanatoElena and Hyuk-June Moon, now published in @ScienceAdvances!

[Hummel Lab @UPHUMMEL_EPFL]

🔥Our paper combining tTIS and VR during fMRI just made the cover of @ScienceAdvances

In collab. with @OlafBlankeLab, we show modulation of spatial navigation in healthy humans associated to changes in hippocampal activity and grid-cell like activity.

https://t.co/AATgZ9vInr

[Marcello Ienca @MarcelloIenca]

Olaf Blanke (@OlafBlankeLab) presenting exciting work on the sense of agency and paving the way to experimental approaches to #neuroethics questions at #HybridMinds @Neuro_X_EPFL @EPFLcdh

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Work led by Myeong-Seop Song (@seop_myeong), in collab with Andrea Serino (@andrea__serino), Oliver Kannape (Centre de médecine virtuelle CMV @hug_ge), and Dario Floreano (@DFloreano).

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

Co-existence of two selves?

Fitting subjects with autonomous drones we show that two separate spaces of selfhood exist simultaneously at two distinct locations.

📰Preprint -->  https://t.co/fyn7R1FOt4

[SfN Journals @SfNJournals]

Recently published in #eNeuro: @nathalie_heidi @OlafBlankeLab et al. used virtual reality to assess how we subjectively relive past experiences. @Neuro_X_EPFL @Brainmind_EPFL
https://t.co/4hvqpizodd

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

We are happy to announce that the Franco Regli Award 2022/2023 went to Fosco Bernasconi (@BernasconiFosco)
Congrats Fosco!

https://t.co/U5ELOk6pNh #epfl

[Sara Stampacchia @SaraStampacchia]

Thrilled to see this work in @CommsBio!

fMRI connectomes enable subject identification 👥 even in #Alzheimers

Brain #fingerprints remain unique but reconfigure as disease progresses, offering exciting potential to capture clinical heterogeneity!

📄 -> https://t.co/IqQkEYpJbF

[Communications Biology @CommsBio]

This study describes a premotor-hippocampal coupling in episodic memory, revealing how bodily sensory context and in particular, sense of agency of the observer at encoding is neurally reinstated during memory retrieval.
@OlafBlankeLab, @nathalie_heidi
https://t.co/20LIERoPre

[Communications Biology @CommsBio]

fMRI-neurofeedback targeting a hallucination-related whole-brain network allows individuals to control its temporal properties & modify proneness to hallucination induction, showing promise for future therapies.
@HerbertoDhanis @OlafBlankeLab @dvdevill
https://t.co/IqQd8aF0D5

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

📢 Congratulations to Dr. Herberto Dhanis (@HerbertoDhanis) and the team for this other publication in @CommsBio!

Hallucinations brain networks can be self-regulated via neurofeedback.

👉Check out the paper --> https://t.co/uTYvHbthSP

[Herberto Dhanis, PhD @HerbertoDhanis]

Our neurofeedback experiment to manipulate induced hallucinations is published in @CommsBio 🥳

Successful regulation of network dynamics increases sensitivity to hallucination induction and changes brain activity 🧠🎛️

Work with @OlafBlankeLab @dvdevill
https://t.co/q38N29DC4s

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

@mvugt @CommsBio @nathalie_heidi Thanks!

[Blanke Lab @OlafBlankeLab]

📢 Excited to share our latest publication in @CommsBio on how memories are embodied through hippocampal-premotor cortex coupling! 🧠

Incredible work led by Nathalie Meyer (@nathalie_heidi) and Baptiste Gauthier!

👉 More details below:

https://t.co/HxuEIaBLWC #epfl